LY101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Mega-City One, Islamic Terrorism, Central Force
Document Summary
War a central force shaping international law: relationship between state, government, and international law, governments engaged in war always have justifications at hand. On the one hand, international law restricts ability of countries to engage in war to a set of narrow conditions. Letter of the law narrows the ability to go to war. Un charter is considered a pillar of international law, it emphasis disputes between countries should be resolved peacefully. Its only the un security counsel (article 24) can authorize war. Un charter can gage in self defence but only under a set of narrow conditions. Can engage in war under self defence in 2 ways if a country is under attack and the un has not responded war that state can defend itself. A country can engage in militarized defence if it is under attack of imminent attack (about to happen: nuremburg tribunal: war of aggression is the supreme international crime.
